Delays on The Time Traveller

Well after a disastrous attempt to add the raised areas on the round section of the top I have found my self rebuilding the chest piece from scratch well this as also been delayed slightly by my working on an app for my pc that would help with working out what percentage the size of one part to another was and also calculating what size a part was of another at that percentage.

well on considering that I use and old android tablet on my desk for viewing reference pics and plans I decided that a version of it to run on my tablet would be better, so I have been working on that for a few days and have come up with this

PerCalc For Android

Please feel free to try it out I will have some new pics of the Time Traveller very soon.

The Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Well I’m Finally making some real Progress on the chest Piece. Looking back at a Pic of the 3.75” figure I noticed that the lower abs area on it was flat so i decided to emulate that look and sand the area flat, at this point I added the last of the strips to the front of the chest piece and sanded it smooth.

the flattened abs helped enormously with the fit of the front and rear sections of the chest piece to the body, with this sorted I was able to join them together and add the side sections that fill in the gap between the front and rear pieces. next is the filling and sanding

More Updates soon.

Chest Pains

Well I have been able to move along with my chest piece front as I have said I’m trying to design a sort of hybrid chest piece that is reminicesnt of the original ones. well here is the work so far and that grill inlay was a pain to line up and get to look right.

 

The grill needs sanding flat with the top if the angle pieces but it is getting there More updates soon

The Chest Piece Moving Along Again

Well I have finally Got Back around to working on the chest piece for a while to get some work done after wrestling with some extension cords and a wall that won’t co-operate with me I have managed to make a start on the front of the chest part so I thought since it had been a while since I have posted any progress I would show you the rough WIP pics that I have of it.

 

Well there you go Hope you like it any comments would be appreciated and I hope to have some more work done by the end of next week, See you in the Funny Pages

Project: Alive

It’s been quiet a while since I have posted any progress pics of my Time Traveller project here but it is still alive, sadly due to shoulder and arm problems and me trying to sort out the First kit for my other site I have been having to leave this to one side for a bit but as the kit is coming to a finish I will be moving on with him soon, thanks for still checking in.

Making the Chest Piece Continued…… (Again!!!!!!!!)

Well realising the lack of dimensions on the feet were causing me issues I realised that I needed to return to the chest Part while I figured out how big the feet need to be so I finalised the two designs I liked and decided to start work on them

 

Well that's the rough layout on the two chest parts although deciding to make two front ones adds another back piece to make so more sanding and and shaping for me in my near future but I think it will be much easier if I construct these side by side to speed up the construction process I also had a great Idea to use a modified version of the back part of the chest piece to create a robot like design for Mego dolls so stay tuned for a preview of that.

The Next stage

Well with the main part of the chest piece done I decided it was time to start on the front plate of the chest piece I was originally going to create an exact replica of the original ones for this project but looking at how many different ones there were plus the ones from the palisades reissues

I decided to make a combined version of the ones I liked the best.

So I began construction on the plate as far as I was able till I came up with the perfect design.

Well with this in the design phase I decided to make some progress with the feet, I remembered these being quite simple but looking at some pics of them they were not as simple as I remembered.

ok well not so bad but it will still be a bit of a challenge to construct these. I had originally intended to make this as a mego doll, but working on some stop motion puppet kit ideas and other parts for that idea  I had considered turning the Micronaut into one of these to help show off the kits. I eventually settled on the notion of doing both versions of this since I had to cast the body in clear resin anyway and looking at the pics there is no left or right foot at this point I would like to thank Starroid Raiders Dagon from the Mego Museum forum for his help with the pics and drawing of the feet which has been a great help.

Will with this in hand I can begin to work on the feet more posts soon on the progress.